Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-06-05

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This dsy comes fan fFeiRhted With re
aseqioaa pecaliariy it, own. ksea fae
ssssal day Of cur undergraduates does not
exsei ia this Fespscs. Bat she vast con
gignmsHt c8nnos BE- Get forth on an %
azssor like this, nor csa many matters
than briefly handled. Most prominent
/ d tue impressive and nzny-psrtsd sub
iass o. the Fiss sn3 progress Of iadfvia
/ ual liberty, on this eoafisert, nay, IN
she world. Fntare and dire collision
between the forces that promote and
fh1ss thaf oppose IL, upon tAIs hissoTIs
earth, which seems reserved from de-
/ sfrussion aa mach fer ostsie ground
ss for birfkplacs, we mag iadsed fore
1 bods aud exuecs. Bat on no arSua.
4 hisherto, had the forces for and those
against aecz minated sash teTrids bad
i or besn dissharpsd against eaea other
With s1ch volume and sash energy, and
such representation OF tbs vagiozs
/ stocks that c9mpcss mankind, or With
s1ch signal and inspiring re-
/ suit. a. in tbs instancs bssoFe
as. And il does seem 80 II, for our own
/ partic1iaP continent, tins victory might
veil be SET down aud eelshrated and
utilized as decisive. Across the wide
oceans saddsR prospects meet ths eyes.
Bat the oppressed can lock hitaer end
take heart. Il has eTsF been sn ire
psessibie American convistisn that
every capital political experiences or
achievement Of our people hiss pso-
found connection with the less favored
| populations on other parts OF the gloDe.
As an American, share that coDyic-
| tio3, and ex1ls IN the thought that the
Vefg settlement of North America, IN
the manner and By whom il was settled,
vas the beginning OF the end OF sll
political wrong. Happy was that day
AMI these shores! for then AID there
vas planted the seed from which hat
Nation spranQ which ia at sncs the
fresst and the head Of the column of
the free.
nation IL like an individRal-it ia
living oFgAaisgD. whose history 10 its
biography. Il has its eras OF tempta-
ton, its strife with evil, its lapses and
It's masteFies. Its greatness depends
nos 90 much on the physical force 10
can WELD IS upon its m4gnanimiiy and
the moral heights to which il rises.
The germ of our ciTl var, as is Aos
easy 20 see, annotated the birth OF the
nation. Even in early colonial times,
the South was predominantly slsvehold
ing aud the NORTH predomiuantly free.
By this, would not be understood to
say, that very large proportion Of the
white people Of the S3ata owned slaves
nor that tbs generality Of the people at
the North were very everse to the exist
enee OF slavery, but that Q difference
and divergence of sentiment, respecting
the property and traffic 10 human be
in2s was already manifest. Most of the
more thouxhtfel men of the epoch OF
our 4 violation. and particularly Il
those charged by Providence and their
fellow eounGTymen With the great trust
OF acting as their agents in founding
the r public we're decidedly opposed to
tue trafic and regarded the institution
itself as an evil inconsistent With tbs
best development of the country. In
the debates of that time, leading up TO
the adoption of our Constituencies
bates, not in Congress alone, but at
public gatherings Ia general and in the
press-the question of slavery received
its share of the discussion. Bat slavery
was too strongly intrenched and too
deeply intsriwined with the N Jneyed
interests and prejadioes of the people
OF the South. 80 be then dislOdged
HoRoe the issus that presented iisslf to
our fathers was this: Unisn with slay-
cry or disunion-0r two fractional
uRions-Without it. Unable, according
to their measure of political wisdom
and under the circumstances and cen
dnioas surrounding them, to solve that
issua otherwise thaB they did, they be-
queRthed to Us, within ths Aew nation,
geographical line of issue respecting
slavery, the issue itsslf, aud struggle,
at first latent, but soon becoming open
and fierce, fundamentally sectional, OF
IS years duration, ending in a war the
most extensive, and in many respects
the most awful, ever wsged in the his
tory Of the human race. They left us
sueh heritage, but With il they also
left to as, IS IL by Compensation, those
operative energies OF material ana so
cial development aud those principles
OF patriotism, whish should win the
var, and end the strs9gle, destroy the
issne and obiiterate the line.
Cur forefathers we're willing aud in
deed felt obliged, whsn fseinx the crit
ical conscience Of mankind, to take the
n0bls stand, 50 well expressed in their
immortal Declaration of Independence,
that "All msa are created sqaal, that
kAlHy orc EL6VEEA Wy AI1AA 1AEnNNA NA@A
certain inAlienable rights, that among
these are life. liberty and the pGrsaIs
Of happiness. That to secure these
rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their Just powers
from the consent OF the governed"
Remembering their Creator in the days
Of our national youth, recognizing Him
as the single Source of all governmental
power, and bsholdinR mans position OF
equality before Him, even to the extent
of the right of human choice, they
boldly asserted both thss equality and
that right, as their justification for the
Revolutionary Rsbsllion. Bus after
Independence hAd been achieved and
the question Of the hour was no longer
iastinoation before the disiUterested
Judgment Of mankind, bat the regulA-
tloR OF their own internal concerns.
the settling OF n government among
themselves, there came O lapse. The
moral grandeur Of Ihe Declaration wss
not suSsaiaed in ths Constitution. In
this latter document there 10 no out
spoken recognition OF the Creator, nor
any account tsksa of the rights of
man as man. Why so7 Bscloss the
framework of the latter dosumeuE vas
Accommodated 20 what, gt It's date, Sefe
being claimed as rights and not 10 shat
sternally are such. Beoause ths eoa
science OF tbs fathers vas not scared sc |
wsth a bot iron, as that Of soae OF their |
dssseadants Afterwards 1shAppily be-
came, bu. vas intelligent ahd qgick, |
aud wauld by no means admit OF their |
protesting 30 d. under the name and |
sanction OF iust and holy Cad Whst
they tsou9kt they foGnd Necessary 10 I
30, in compiaisanoe 20 one an0theT's
supposed self interests. Ihs ConstItu
ties from the date of i,s adoption vas
in conflict With the ID elsration Of In |
dependence. The tSo organic instru
ments we're Ut variance with each other. |
and \ qaesti0uinR world looked en- to /
see what should be tbs outcome.
Oar war waa = tremendous Incident |
10 great national patriotic movement /
80 realize more perfectly ia practice the |
principle Of toe equal rights # msn. on |
Ehleh oar nationality ts founded. Ihe |
rsovsmsnt involved changes, not fac
tionsl bat organic, not deRenerstgvs BOT |
FegeneFative, sna so obscure ia develop
ment, though not In symptoms, that |
she aaiion as sueh did not get veil aware |
- than ell fnrrAa like 4br,aa Of rf4za,4ss